Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Verne

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

Julia Child

Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

Julia Cameron

God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

Judie Brown

I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person...

Judi Shekoni

I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.

Judi Shekoni

When you just arrive in L.A., you are in a great position, as you are fresh meat, and people will meet you and give you a chance.

Jude Law

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

Jude Law

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that`s going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

Josette Sheeran

Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.

Josh Earnest

I try to most effectively and persuasively present our argument, in a way that gives other people the information they need to decide, on the merits, the wisdom of the path that the president has advocated.

Josh Brolin

The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.

Pat Summitt

I don't give out compliments easily.

Pat Robertson

Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.

P. D. James

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

P. J. O'Rourke

The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.

P. J. O'Rourke

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

P. J. O'Rourke

Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

P. G. Wodehouse

A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.

Ovid

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

Ovid

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

Ovid

Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.

Ovid

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

To give requires good sense.

Ovid

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

Giving calls for genius.

Ovid

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

Paul Pierce

There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.

Paul Newman

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

Paul Bloom

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

Paul Bloom

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

Paul Bettany

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

Matt Groening

I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

Masanobu Fukuoka

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.